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Battle for our minds : Western elites and the terror threat / Michael Widlanski.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Widlanski, Michael.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Terrorism--Psychological aspects.
- Terrorism.
- Terrorism and mass media.
- Intelligence service.
- Terrorism--United States--Psychological aspects.
- Terrorism and mass media--United States.
- Intelligence service--United States.
- Psychological aspects.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- v, 394 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First Threshold Editions hardcover edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Threshold Editions, 2012.
- Summary:
- From political communications expert Dr. Widlanski comes a rich and detailed portrayal of how intellectual arrogance and complacency in government has led to a failure to effectively use counter-terrorism intelligence.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Terror and academia: sabotaging the Western mind
- Terror and the press: the devil's bargain
- CNN: certainly not news
- Journalists as lap dogs
- Protecting the CIA and boosting Bin-Laden
- Counter-terror intelligence as oxymoronic or just moronic
- The ideologies, methods, and motives of Arab-Islamic terror
- Country case studies: operative lessons
- Scenarios and solutions.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781451659030
- 1451659032
- 9781451659054
- 1451659059
- OCLC:
- 741355084
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